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Red Bull announces 2013 Junior Team

April 3, 2013

Red Bull has announced it's roster of drivers for its Junior Team. The team features six drivers. Photo by RED BULL

Once again, the Red Bull Junior Team has assembled some of the greatest young talents from the motorsport world and is providing them with the opportunity to advance their careers. With six drivers from six nations competing in a four-race series and including a female team member for the first time, the squad is full of skill and enthusiasm for the 2013 season.

António is concentrating on the Formula Renault 3.5 Series and has already made his intentions clear with some blistering performances in preseason testing. Driving for Arden Caterham, as he did last year, he was over a second quicker than last year’s pole time during the final collective test at Catalunya and headed the timing sheet for the two-day test just as he had done at the Paul Ricard test in March.

Daniil Kvyat (Russia), GP3 / MW Arden

Russian 18-year-old Daniil Kvyat contested both the Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup where seven victories took him to 2nd place and the Alps series where another seven wins gave him the title in 2012. He now steps up to GP3 with the MW Arden Team and was fast right from the start of pre season testing in Estoril back in February.

Carlos Sainz Jr. (Spain), GP3 / MW Arden

Sainz, the 18-year-old Spaniard, knows Britain well having campaigned the British Formula 3 Championship in 2012, finishing sixth overall. He was sixth in the Formula 3 Euro Series and 5th in the FIA European Formula 3 Championship. Carlos now steps up to GP3 with the MW Arden team and blitzed everyone to head the table on the opening day of testing, a feat he repeated the following day and he was quickest over the three day test in Estoril.

This year Tom Blomqvist is the Junior Team’s F3 representative and the scene has been rationalised so that the FIA Formula 3 European Championship is clearly the top series. The 19-year-old Briton, son of 1984 World Rally Champion Stig, drives for the Eurointernational team and was already on the podium in the first round of the series at Monza this March.

Beitske Visser (Netherlands), ADAC Formula Masters / Motopark Academy

The 18-year-old Netherlander Beitske Visser is the first ever female to join our squad. She races in the ADAC Formula Masters and last year she scored an impressive two wins on her way to eighth in the championship, her first venture into single seaters as she made the transition from karts.

Alongside Beitske in the Motopark Academy team is 16-year-old South African Callan O’Keeffe, now in his second season as a Junior Team member as he steps up to the Masters series from the Formula BMW Talent Cup.